3.5 न हि कश्चित्क्षणमपि जातु तिष्ठत्यकर्मकृत्। कार्यते ह्यवशः कर्म सर्वः प्रकृतिजैर्गुणैः
na hi kaścit
Word meanings
na—not;hi—certainly;kaśhchit—anyone;kṣhaṇam—a moment;api—even;jātu—ever;tiṣhṭhati—can remain;akarma-kṛit—without action;kāryate—are performed;hi—certainly;avaśhaḥ—helpless;karma—work;sarvaḥ—all;prakṛiti-jaiḥ—born of material nature;guṇaiḥ—by the qualities
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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For, no one can ever remain, even for a moment, as a non-performer of action; because everyone, not being master of themselves, is forced to perform action by the strands born of the Prakriti (Material cause).
He cannot even for a moment remain really inactive, for the Qualities of Nature will compel him to act whether he will or no.
No man can, even for a moment, rest without doing work; for everyone is caused to act, in spite of himself, by the Gunas born of Nature.
Because, no one ever remains even for a moment without doing work. For all are made to work under compulsion by the gunas born of Nature.
Verily none can ever remain for even a moment without performing action; for, everyone is made to act helplessly indeed by the qualities born of Nature.
3.7 यस्त्विन्द्रियाणि मनसा नियम्यारभतेऽर्जुन। कर्मेन्द्रियैः कर्मयोगमसक्तः स विशिष्यते
yas
Word meanings
yaḥ—who;tu—but;indriyāṇi—the senses;manasā—by the mind;niyamya—control;ārabhate—begins;arjuna—Arjun;karma-indriyaiḥ—by the working senses;karma-yogam—karm yog;asaktaḥ—without attachment;saḥ—they;viśhiṣhyate—are superior
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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But, controlling the sense-organs with the mind, whoever undertakes the Yoga of action with the action-senses, he, the detached one, is superior, O Arjuna!
But, O Arjuna! All honour to him whose mind controls his senses, for he is thereby beginning to practise Karma-Yoga, the Path of Right Action, keeping himself always unattached.
But he who, subduing his senses by the mind, O Arjuna, begins to practise Karma Yoga through the organs of action and who is free from attachment - he excels.
But, O Arjuna, one who engages in Karma-yoga with the organs of action, controlling the organs with the mind and becoming unattached-that one excels.
But whosoever, controlling the senses by the mind, O Arjuna, engages himself in Karma Yoga with the organs of action, without attachment, he excels!
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कर्मयोग
Chapter 3: Karma Yoga
karmayoga
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3.6 कर्मेन्द्रियाणि संयम्य य आस्ते मनसा स्मरन्। इन्द्रियार्थान्विमूढात्मा मिथ्याचारः स उच्यते
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Word meanings
karma-indriyāṇi—the organs of action;sanyamya—restrain;yaḥ—who;āste—remain;manasā—in the mind;smaran—to remember;indriya-arthān—sense objects;vimūḍha-ātmā—the deluded;mithyā-āchāraḥ—hypocrite;saḥ—they;uchyate—are called
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Controlling their organs of action, whoever sits with their mind pondering over sense objects—that person is a man of deluded soul and is called a man of deluded action.
He who remains motionless, refusing to act, but all the while brooding over sensuous object, that deluded soul is simply a hypocrite.
He who, controlling the organs of action, lets his mind dwell on the objects of senses, is a deluded person and a hypocrite.
One, who after withdrawing the organs of action, sits mentally recollecting the objects of the senses, that one, of deluded mind, is called a hypocrite.
He who, restraining the organs of action, sits thinking of the sense-objects in mind, he, of deluded understanding, is called a hypocrite.
